AWALE RESOURCES - New Permit Granted in Côte d'Ivoire
AWALE RESOURCES - New Permit Granted in Côte d'Ivoire
Vancouver, BC, January 29, 2018 – Awalé Resources Limited (“Awalé” or the “Company”) (TSXV: ARIC)
is pleased to announce the granting of a new prospective gold permit ‘Amélékia’, in the Comoé district of
south eastern C ôte d’Ivoire . Th e permit is the first granted of three Awalé applications, forming the
Company’s Abengourou Project (Figure 1).
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Glen Parsons CEO commented today:
“The granting of the new gold prospective Amélékia permit in the Abengourou Project area is an important
step for Awalé. It complements the Company’s strategy of amalgamating permits to form project areas
with significant exploration scale and potential, combined with a broader focus on the east of Côte d’Ivoire.
In close proximity, to the north, we have the more advanced Bondoukou Project where initial scout drilling
has recently been completed.
The key for Awalé is ensuring and managing a pipeline of gold projects in Côte d’Ivoire offering district
scale, which has now been achieved.
We look forward to keeping the market informed of our progress and pending drill results from
Bondoukou.”
Background on Amélékia
The 375km 2 permit is prospective for gold mineralisation and forms the south western ‘C ôte d’Ivoire’
extension of the Sunyani Basin from Ghana, interpreted extensions the Sefwi Belt contacts lie close to the
permit area. Newmont’s Ahafo gold mining district is located on the Sefwi Belt, close to the Sunyani Basin
contact. Parts of the permit area were formerly held by Golden Star Resources and legacy data on this
project area has been retrieved by the company. Data retrieved from this period of activity includes over
100 stream sediment samples, over 7 ,000 soil and auger geochemistry samples along with rock chip
sampling and limited pitting. The work completed covers the greater portion of the Amélékia permit area
revealing anomalous gold geochemical trends and soil anomalies that are parallel to the regional
structural trends as seen in geophysics and government mapping (Figure 2). Strike lengths of these
anomalies trace up to 10km in the south of the permit area and 6km in the northeast, other shorter strike
length anomalies are also apparent.
The permit is 100% held by Awalé through its local subsidiary Awalé Resources Côte d’Ivoire.
Original lab reports for the data obtained and details on quality control sampling are not yet available to
be verified by Awalé. However, the data gives the Company initial focus areas to assess and complete due
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diligence sampling and geological mapping in order to verify the anomalies in the legacy data. If the data
is found to be robust then drill targets can be rapidly developed.
As per standard practice, the Company will commence initial community sensitisation prior to planned
exploration and verification of gold anomalous zones identified from the legacy data.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
AWALE RESOURCES LIMITED.
“Glen Parsons”
Glen Parsons, President and CEO
For additional information you are invited to visit the Awalé Resources Limited website at
www.awaleresources.com, or contact Karen Davies, Head of Investor Relations at Tel: 604.314.6270
Qualified Person
The technical and scientific information contained in this news release has been reviewed and approved
for release by Andrew Chubb, the Company’s Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
Mr Chubb is the Company’s Chief Operating Officer and holds a Economic Geology degree, is a Member
of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG), and is a Member of the Society of Economic Geologists
(SEG). Mr Chubb has 17 years of experience in international minerals exploration and mining project
evaluation.
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